AI is being used to abuse children, and we can do something about it

Last May, congress passed the Take It Down Act, requiring websites to remove “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions” of identifiable individuals. This includes both real and AI-generated content. But this law only addresses content publication, not the various ways in which...

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We know, but sometimes we wonder

We knew about a week ago that it might snow this past weekend, but ministers have to be in denial about it at least until Saturday afternoon. During the senior adult luncheon last Tuesday when the mere possibility of snow…

Religion little more than ‘politics in drag,’ rabbi says ahead of inauguration

The lineup of ministers selected to pray at Donald Trump’s inauguration reaffirms the divisions within American Christianity. Conservatives view the selections of, say, Franklin Graham and Paula White, as affirming biblical and patriotic values and as support of unfettered capitalism….

Same-sex married couple to lead historic Baptist church

A historic Baptist church in the nation’s capital has called a legally married lesbian couple as co-pastors. Calvary Baptist Church in Washington announced Jan. 9 the hiring of Sally Sarratt and Maria Swearingen as the congregation’s new senior ministers. The couple,…

The Church without Christ and the Ghost of Christmas Future

There’s something deeply American about Campolo’s story, something that ought to unsettle us — the remarkable sense that even atheism could receive “the best evangelical techniques.”

Alien citizens

Karl Barth, Eberhard Arnold, and why the Church is political

The greatest challenge your pastor will face in 2017

Pastors across America will face a common challenge in 2017, and it could be you. Not that you’re a bad person or mean. But the greatest challenge for your pastor in this new year could be you — if you…

Visit to Metro Baptist in NYC transforms children into missionaries

A homeless man knocked on the door of Metro Baptist Church to ask for a drink. Ronnie Adams, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel, and Katie Hillhouse, a fourth grader from Boulevard Baptist Church in Anderson, S.C., delivered a glass of…

Advocate says preaching opportunities changing landscape for Baptist women in ministry

A decade-old emphasis encouraging moderate Baptist churches to invite a woman to preach one Sunday in February has contributed to a shift in how people in the pew think about women in ministry, a longtime advocate for pulpit inclusiveness said…

Couple continues legal fight against Glorieta sale

An Arkansas couple who lost a lease on property on which they purchased a vacation home with the sale of Glorieta Conference Center in 2013 say they aren’t giving up on their legal battle to invalidate the deal after losing…

How white Christian nostalgia drove small-town America to Trump

A yearning for an earlier time, especially prevalent in rural American towns and cities, helped spur white evangelical Christians to vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.

‘Give the King your justice, O God’

“Give the King your justice, O God,” the Psalmist writes to begin the 72nd chapter — the lectionary text for this day of Epiphany, Jan. 6, 2017. “That he may rule your people righteously and the poor with justice. ……